With Robyn Scott and Ntombi Makhutshi. Directed by Lara Bye. Written by Nicholas Spagnoletti. Multi-award winner including 3 Fleur du Caps, the Olive Schreiner Prize and The Stage (Edinburgh) award for best actress.

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London Road, Sea Point’ is a truly wonderful piece of theatre. Robyn Scott and Ntombi Makhutshi are nothing short of glorious as a Jewish widow and a Nigerian immigrant, an unlikely duo thrust together by chance and circumstance, who discover they have more in common than they thought. The perceptibly …read more

Not all good stories are about big things. Sometimes epic stakes can be found in the smallest of relationships. Nicholas Spagnoletti’s London Road, Sea Point shows how everyday encounters can change lives. Rosa is a Jewish grandmother who lives in the same block as Stella, an immigrant from Nigeria. This …read more

Sometimes drama need not be an overwhelming, thrilling ride. Sometimes drama is in the minutiae of our daily lives. Rosa and Stella’s story is compellingly told, with a real sense of the passage of time and a deepening of love between two women, drawn together by simple circumstance and held …read more

It was almost a treat to receive this rather negative review which makes the rest of the hysterical praise all the sweeter. London Road is a street in the now-affluent Cape Town suburb of Sea Point. But it wasn’t always that way. It was once seen as a dangerous area …read more

Our humanity is best, and perhaps only, expressed when we do the unexpected, such as showing compassion to a stranger or, conversely, being unnecessarily cruel and malicious to a friend or family member. London Road focuses on the former, revealing how a random act of kindness can enrich people’s lives …read more

“All the Jewish men went home and called their mothers. A few elderly women trembled a little in fear of what lies ahead, while any Nigerian drug dealers reckoned they came out of it looking pretty decent. And everyone in the audience agreed they really had seen a very special piece of theatre.” …read more